fizx

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1. 721.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   Perhaps to promote Steam adoption?
2. 722.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   My experience with Java and Scala in high profile, high traffic apps is that they are more or less exactly the same speed. Scala has historically had a much less performant (and buggy) collections library, so I've often used java collectio
3. 723.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   From another perspective, Heroku has unlimited free git hosting that happens to optionally serve webapps.
4. 724.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   > Scala runs a little slower than Java (I've heard about 6x in benchmarks, but I'd bet it's worse in Dalvik), [citation required]
5. 725.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   ...because what scala needs is more api-breaking decisions...
6. 726.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   This makes me think that Square may be a "leapfrog" innovation. The best example of leapfrogging is cell phones and landlines. In the US, you might have briefly had people saying things like "cell phones will never replace landlines becau
7. 727.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   Wait, what!? You have at least two good options for Solr libaries in Python, neither of which brings you anywhere close to xslt. - http://haystacksearch.org/ - http://code.google.com/p/pysolr/
8. 728.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   I'll check it out; thanks for the tip!
9. 729.▲
   by fizx 15y ago

   I was talking about incremental compiles (one loop around sbt ~test-compile), on a laptop, with a web browser open. Colleagues have benchmarked SSD compiles at 5x+ faster.
10. 730.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    Sweet $deity, the Scala compiler is so painful! You changed one line of code in a 40KLOC code base, now you wait 40s for the recompile.
11. 731.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    This argument (while good) won't apply to cars for simple economic reasons. Having a human pilot or subway driver costs 1 marginal person for hundreds of people. Having an extra driver per car costs 1 person per person. I will strongly be
12. 732.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    This is correct, especially for a company under the level of government privacy scrutiny as Facebook. An erroneous push that exposes private user data could lead to a very heavy fine.
13. 733.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    Yeah, I realized that the first time I was looking at someone else's HBase and they had a primary key of timestamp.toString.reverse. ;)
14. 734.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion. A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
15. 735.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    Blame IE6. Web developers spend an inordinate amount of time doing cross-platform testing, and they don't use the best technology possible, because they will need to think about how it degrades. Also, Loren, amazing as he is, didn't put tog
16. 736.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    If you click on the alphabet, it plays sound. WPM controls the playback speed.
17. 737.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    I'm trying to think of what the phrase means to me: "We only hire people with demonstrable (1) CS knowledge equivalent to a BS CS from a top5 school (2) a track record of productivity exceeding their peers in a challenging environment (name
18. 738.▲
    by fizx 15y ago

    Still gotta fix GC fragmentation before I'll never have to restart my JVMs.
19. 739.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    For a different perspective, "What colour are your bits?" ( http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 ) is an excellent read. It could be argued that programs and ideas built up through the machinery of mathematics are unpatentable, whereas progr
20. 740.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    I like the concept, and the cards look good enough, however I find the specific tasks boring and limited (to 52). You might try making the tasks combinatoric.
21. 741.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    I don't think the product of the numbers solution is linear. Multiplication gets harder as numbers get bigger.
22. 742.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    Those things have non-social utility. High heels once did (horses), but no longer do.
23. 743.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    IIRC, only true of private repos.
24. 744.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    In general, the law frowns upon the sort of pedantic cleverness geeks love.
25. 745.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    Please don't.
26. 746.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    Please put a video on the homepage. If I'm on the fence, I'd rather watch a video than create an account.
27. 747.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    I disagree. Take a bare minimum of 15%. That seems to be about what's competitive for non-merchant-account payment systems. You'll need to keep margins up.
28. 748.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    I hear Facebook has internal guidelines that say they can't grow by more than 60% y/y.
29. 749.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    I have used the app. I saw pictures from ~6-7 of my friends at a happy hour party I was at. Then, just now, I reopened the app and saw some funny yet interesting pictures of neighbors cooking. Maybe it's just cause I live in SF.
30. 750.▲
    by fizx 16y ago

    It's reasonably likely that a good portion of the 1 star reviews aren't opinions of the app, but are rather expressions of disapproval of the funding/ecosystem/bubble situation.